First Ghana Economic Forum held in Accra

Miss Hannah Tetteh, Minister of Trade and Industry, has expressed government’s willingness to provide pragmatic measures to address the current economic challenges undermining the development of the country. She mentioned some of the challenges as high unemployment rate, rising levels of public debt, high interest rates, infrastructural deficits, high public sector wage bills and volatile international commodity markets and its attendant effect on foreign exchange earnings. She said the challenges would be addressed through policy interventions and programmes outlined in the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda. These include sustaining current micro-economic stability, improving transport infrastructure, enhancing human development, developing Private sector competitiveness and improving science and technology in the country. Miss Tetteh made this known at the First Ghana Economic Forum organised by Business and Financial Times and supported by Virgin Atlantic in Accra. The event which was on the theme “Integrating people, sytems and technologies for sustainable economic

development” brought together about 150 participants. They included chief executive officers, board chairmen, directors-general, legal advisors, entrepreneurs, civil society leaders, and senior level decision makers in public & private sector organizations in Ghana and development partners. The forum was aimed to deliberate on how Ghana could sustain the macroeconomic gains made in recent times, and the strategy for sustaining the growth trajectory on the three key pillars of people, systems and technology deployment. The forum served as a platform to highlight on major concerns and key drivers of the economy, the intersecting players and how the leadership tool can be better developed to oil the wheels of development. continued